Strangers Either Way
The Lives of Croatian Refugees in their New Home
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Berghahn Books
Published:1st Jun '11
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Croatia gained the world's attention during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In this context its image has been overshadowed by visions of ethnic conflict and cleansing, war crimes, virulent nationalism, and occasionally even emergent regionalism. Instead of the norm, this book offers a diverse insight into Croatia in the 1990s by dealing with one of the consequences of the war: the more or less forcible migration of Croats from Serbia and their settlement in Croatia, their "ethnic homeland." This important study shows that at a time in which Croatia was perceived as a homogenized nation-in-the-making, there were tensions and ruptures within Croatian society caused by newly arrived refugees and displaced persons from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Refugees who, in spite of their common ethnicity with the homeland population, were treated as foreigners; indeed, as unwanted aliens.
" ...an accessible text that makes, and evidences, hypotheses about identity-building, cross-cultural strategies, and the processes of co-ethnic migration." * JRAI "The translation to the lingua franca of today's world is a very good decision, since this remarkable text would have otherwise remained unknown to readers not fluent in Croatian... [It] contributes to a better understanding of identity dynamics and creation of multicultural interaction in a national context." * Anthropological Noteboooks "This is an excellent addition to the literature on the experience of migration... Capo Zmegac... is well informed... The theoretical treatments are useful and well supported... The translation is very good, and the epilogue reflecting on the Croatian reception of Capo Zmegac's work in 2002 is an unusual and valuable methodological contribution. Highly recommended." * Choice "... a welcome addition to the field of forced migrations for it makes a significant exploratory step into the understudied phenomena of cultural dynamism and identity (re)construction among co-ethnic migrants (refugees) in the post-Yugoslav space." * Austrian History Yearbook
- Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2008
ISBN: 9780857451491
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 318g
224 pages